A Register With a Fan to Better Heat and Cool Any Room

AF410A AirFlow Breeze, Quiet Register Booster Fan, Almond Color 4" x 10" opening Sale Price: $59.95 Average Rating:

Description

Color: Almond Give Your Heating and Cooling System a Boost! Increase your comfort, and save money too! If you have a room that doesnt get its fair share of warm or cool air from your heating / air conditioning system, the AirFlow Breeze could be your solution. Once you set your target comfort level, the built-in temperature sensor takes over. It will direct the powerful, yet quite fan to pull extra warm or cool air out of weak registers, increasing air flow, and delivering the comfort you demand. Technical Specs Size: The AirFlow Breeze is 4 x 10 to fit most standard vent openings, Material: Flame-retardant plastic, Power Requirements: 115 VAC converted to 12VDC 500mA (adapter included), Includes six (6) foot power cord in a matching color, Power Consumption: 8 Watts, Fan Speed: The AirFlow Breeze has three fan settings, Fast Speed 100 cubic feet per minute (cfm), Medium Speed 70 cubic feet per minute (cfm), Slow Speed 40 cubic feet per minute (cfm), Temperature setting range: Heat Off Cool, UL approval: UL-507 USA and Canada, Covered by a one year limited warranty from date of purchase, Comes complete, easy to read instructions.

Features

• Almond Color
• Fits 4" x 10" Vent Openings
• Boosts Heating & Cooling
• Increases Air Flow
• 3 Fan Settings

Reviews

I bought this hoping to equalize the temperature in the room farthest from the furnace. It's pretty loud, but the tone is low enough to be somewhat soothing. I had every intention of ripping out the fans and replacing them with quiet CPU fans but my daughter doesn't mind. It's made a slight improvment, but not worth the price. I actually considered returning it, but the company was going to only issue a credit and they don't make anything else I need.

My house has a 12'X12' bedroom that's always about 10 degrees F hotter or colder than the rest of the house on days when AC or heat is required. I wasted a lot of time trying to balance this by closing other registers in other rooms. Even adding another vent to the room didn't help. This device has been able to cut the temperature difference to about 4 degrees F. I don't know if the thermostat switch really works as I just turn it on or off manually. It's also noisy: sounds like a large portable electric fan on medium or high despite its small size.

I really have little to complain about except that the fans are so darned loud. There is a constant 2000 hz (?) whine/drone from the fans. Also, while I think that the volume of air was increased, I wouldn't say that these fans increased it by very much and I'm only gauging this by the flow of air around my hand. I plan to return it soon.

We have two bedrooms in the house that are always 2-4 F colder than the rest of the house. That is especially noticeable on cold windy days. We bought one of these things to try it out in the room used as an office. We ordered straight from Airflow Products, and not Amazon. The way it is listed on Amazon is somewhat counterintuitive -- from the manufacturer you can order a specific kit that matches your register; from Amazon you have to order the fan and the adapter separately. Now I know how to size them so I will probably get it from Amazon next time. The installation was trivial. For a more permanent installation you have to drill two holes for the screws. If you use an adapter you have no choice but to drill two holes. Once installed it is relatively easy to set up and get going. It appears to turn on regardless of the thermostat setting when the warm air is blowing through the register. It is also louder than I'd like for a product like this. That is why I am giving it a 4 instead of a 5. The loudness issue is important. The fans appear to be low-voltage units much like the ones used in computer power supplies. You can get near-silent fans from computer parts suppliers and it is not clear why Airflow Products chose to save on the fans. On the low fan speed setting it is decent. Aside from noise, it does exactly what it claims it will do. It pulls air from warmer parts of the house into the room. We only have one register in the office so it really is pulling the air from other parts of the house. That makes me think that it may make the room next door to the office colder -- but that happens to be the other room where we want the booster fan. We will see how it behaves in the office and we will order another one for the bedroom soon.

Ok, so I live in a typical small, 3BR, midwest split level home built in the 70's. Probably everyone who's ever lived in one of these (LOTS of you)will probably agree that the upstairs is ALWAYS hotter in summer and cooler in winter - especially the smallest BR - am I right? In the past 4 years, we've spent TONS of $ installing a new furnace, a new air conditioner and a whole house fan in the attic, trying to improve the circulation. While all of these helped (& of course have lowered my energy costs), NOT ONE made such a marked drastic improvement in the room temp as this little gem. I love it, my baby who sleeps in that room loves it - it works great and I think the peeps who disagree might have unrealistic expectations of it. I do have one concern about the safety of it - the fan is recessed down into the vent, but I still think my son could reach his fingers down to it - he's shown an interest. Babies are very curious and not too smart. When he's playing on the floor in his room, I always make sure its turned off.